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On hand to open the Orlando, Fla., Gloria Swanson film festival, a charity benefit for local cultural organizations, was the star herself. Now a svelte 74, wearing a slinky black number slit to the knee and trailing a feather boa, Gloria launched a three-day program of movies ranging from Manhandled in 1924 to her comeback success in 1950, Sunset Boulevard. She reminded the first-night audience that she had never retired; she will be appearing next month, festooned with bees in a television movie called Killer Bees. Then she relived her DeMille days by narrating a 60-minute montage of career highlights. That is, as much of them as she could remember. "The young people," she noted afterward, "can tell me more about my own career."